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Chibil: A C compiler targeting .NET IL
- pjc50 4mo agoNote that Microsoft "cl /clr" also does this. It's a bit of a niche use case.
- cxr 4mo agoThe creator of lcc also published a paper "lcc.NET: targeting the .NET Common Intermediate Language from Standard C" (2004). <https://drh.github.io/documents/msil-spe.pdf https://drh.github.io/documents/msil-spe.pdf> One problem with lcc has always been that it's distributed as source available with restrictions and has never been available under a FOSS license.
- whizzter 4mo agoThe CLR model has always had support for instruction to support the C/C++ language, compile plugins or similar once and load/run on multiple platforms should be possible. However, iirc there might've been some issues with libraries making the cl /clr code unportable (don't quote me on that though), starting from scratch might yield a better result if one just wants to run C code everywhere.
- le-mark 4mo agoThis is a c compiler (chibicc) ported to c#, and updated to emit .net IL ie bytecode.
- fithisux 4mo agoOrangeC targets IL too.